Chapter 80: The Losers' Bracket
Of course, the winner has to stand in front of the stage to greet the cheers of the audience, two games, clean and neat, almost completely suppressed to take out the game, so that the fans of the WT team are very happy, the domestic e-sports environment, whether it is a regional competition or a professional competition, only victory is the main reason for fans to support you all the time, if the popular team lacks results, it will slowly be swayed by the trolls The emotions of the fans.
WT is currently the most popular team in H City, and they haven't been disappointed so far, with the winner of the upper bracket having a small trophy on their own, so the award ceremony and the draw for the lower bracket will take place.
The progress of the upper bracket is always faster than that of the lower bracket, and the schedule is such that the teams in the lower bracket are happy to take a break to observe and learn from new opponents, but after the defeat of the TC team today, two of the four teams known as the strongest will inevitably meet in the lower bracket in advance, and then meet another strong team to compete for the lower bracket championship.
The WT team stood on the field, first took a large number of peripheral products from the staff and threw them to the audience, most of which were picked up by the audience in the front row, but all the prizes won by Lan Lie's relatives and friends were voted for by the classmates of University B in the back without hesitation, which can be regarded as a small purchase of people's hearts and caused a large number of people to scramble.
Today, the TC team fell into the lower bracket as the loser, so no matter which team draws them, there will be no match tomorrow, and a week will be given for the TC team to rest, and the next week there will be two consecutive days of competition to determine the champion of the lower bracket.
With only two weeks to go until the championship, the WT team was very excited to win, but they also knew that they didn't have a lot of time to go, so they had to watch the lower bracket qualify for the lower bracket with 12 points.
The championship trophy of the winner's group is a crystal ball placed on a gilded base, which looks amazing, but the cost is certainly not high, but the lights shine with golden light, but there is also a different kind of pseudo-local tyrant atmosphere, although the champion of the Internet café campus champion also took it, but for the first time in front of so many spectators to lift the trophy, the members of the WT team decided not to study how much this trophy is worth for the time being, and use the best mental state to give back to the fans who support them.
Chen Chuxiao raised the trophy high, and the five people reached out to drag the base at the same time, and the flashing lights on the scene continued, recording this moment.
The winner of the bracket is not the championship, but the word win is still more convincing than defeat, the host seems to have received some kind of instruction, and once again solemnly reintroduced the background of the WT team on the side, which emphasized that they are a cutting-edge team sponsored by the local Hengyu Real Estate Group, and the advertisement is too obvious, but the fans on the scene did not care, just cheered the name of the WT team.
The award ceremony is over, followed by the exciting lottery session, the captains of the four teams on the stage, looking at the four cards in the envelope in the host's hand, it is still the old rule, whoever is drawn is who, if both teams draw themselves, then these two teams are in the same group, all four people draw themselves, redraw, if team A draws team B, team B draws team C, this situation appears, still redraw.
In fact, it could have been possible for one person to draw to decide the order of the battle, but the organizing committee insisted that all four teams draw lots to choose their own fate, even if it would be troublesome.
After clarifying the rules, the four captains stepped forward together and chose a card very casually, anyway, if you want to advance, any strong team will meet, as for the team that does not belong to the four strong teams, it has become the lucky sign that everyone is looking forward to.
Chen Miting slowly opened the envelope, took out the card and glanced at the name on it, and slowly put it back, his expression was still so calm, but the teammates in the audience found that the captain's hand was silently clenched into fists, and everyone was cold in their hearts.
Chen Miting raised his head and looked at Wang Jie, the captain of the Spark team not far away, and the other party also happened to raise his head to look at himself, then there will be no chance of redrawing this sign, tomorrow's first showdown in the loser's group, the Flower Demon team against the Spark team.
One is the flower demon whose call for winning the championship is second only to the WT team, and the other is the old and calm Xinghuo, who took the initiative to relegate the loser group with seemingly great confidence, causing a huge wave of discussion, so that the two teams collided in advance, making the audience look forward to it at the same time, but also somewhat regretful.
Almost all the audience hopes that the strong team will stay at the back of the most Lu before they meet, when they all go to the stage of the finals with all the strong opponents, and then fight vigorously with the momentum of the decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City, Xinghuo and Flower Demon have good popularity, but these two teams are destined to leave the stage of the H City Championship tomorrow, which is inevitably a little embarrassing.
Chen Miting took the initiative to step forward, shook hands with Wang Jie and said, "I didn't expect to meet so early, see you tomorrow." ”
Wang Jie still had that expression, and said with a look that didn't seem to be fake: "You guys are really strong, and I really don't have any bottom when I meet you." ”
Chen Miting smiled and did not go down politely, but turned his head and walked off the stage, returning to the middle of his teammates.
Walking to the side of the WT team with the Flower Demon team, Chen Miting first congratulated the WT team on winning the upper bracket championship, and then left the venue early after chatting a few words casually, because they were going to play tomorrow, they estimated that there were too many things to discuss tonight, even Tang Xiaoxi, who had always been noisy, was surprisingly quiet today, Lan Yu dangled the bright trophy in front of him for a long time and he didn't speak, and it seemed that his mood was really heavy.
It is certain that the Spark team is not good at fighting, and Chen Miting has also strategically despised the opponent in front of his teammates, but if he really draws the other party, it still makes them muttered in their hearts for a while, and the degree of vigilance against the Spark team is definitely not inferior to that of the WT team.
Looking at the back of the Flower Demon Team silently leaving, the members of the WT team can only bless, after all, there is not much information about the Spark team, but after tomorrow's game, no matter whether the Spark team wins or loses, they will definitely expose a lot of things in front of the Flower Demon team, and it will be for the benefit of future generations.
Today's activities ended quickly, and the WT team signed more than 100 team uniforms in the background as a special sale for the champion of the upper group, of course, it was limited, but the signatures of these 100 or so team uniforms still made the WT team cry out, but fortunately, everyone's handwriting was good, and the signing on the team uniform did not destroy any beauty.
Of course, there was a celebration as usual, but despite the 2-0 victory, the WT team members were still tired, and the series of activities after the match were also physically demanding, so everyone randomly found a restaurant to have a meal, and made an appointment to watch the game together the next day before returning to the dormitory to rest.
After sending the two girls back to the dormitory, the three boys returned to Lan Yu and Mu Huan's dormitory together, and decided to leave the review of today's game until tomorrow night to do it together, but the boys will still brag a little bit about it, especially under the leadership of Lan Yu and Yuan Xiaoye, now Mu Huan will occasionally argue about some details in the game.
Lan Yu received a congratulatory text message from Lin Nianwei, as simple and warm as ever, which made Lan Yu's mood more comfortable, I don't know if there was Lin Nianwei's intervention, now his feelings for his senior sister don't seem to be as strong as before, occasionally in the eyes of the two people, you can still see the deepest part of the eyes deliberately suppressed emotions, but at least on the surface, he and Chen Chuxiao look more like a pair of ordinary good friends.
Maybe he was just using Lin Nianwei's enthusiasm to escape, Lan Yu thought silently in his heart, he really didn't think about how to face Lin Nianwei's feelings, everyone thought that he should be a love saint, but he was a junior brother who didn't know anything, so he could only go with the flow and see where he and Lin Nianwei could go.
The three boys chatted until late at night, Yuan Xiaoye went upstairs to his dormitory, and it was estimated that he would continue to chat with his roommates and classmates all night, while Lan Yu and Mu Huan did not have such a wide social circle, so they climbed into bed after taking a shower at random.
The next morning, I went to the cafeteria to have some breakfast, and the five of them came to the school gate to gather neatly, I have to say that Chen Chuxiao and Wang Yan also have a very good quality, that is, they are almost never late, and the concept of time is very good, just like their support on the field, they are always so accurate and in place.
Sitting in the business car sent to them by Lan Yu's father, the five of them went straight to the e-sports hall, there was only one game today, that is, the showdown between the Flower Demon Team and the Spark Team, which happened to be on Sunday, so there were still a lot of spectators present, and they entered the backstage from the special player channel, and they happened to meet all the members of the Spark team.
When Wang Jie saw the WT team, he walked over with a smile and said, "Congratulations on winning the upper bracket championship, our decision to go to the lower bracket is really correct, you are becoming more and more like a real strong team." ”
In the face of Wang Jie's compliment, the WT team couldn't slap it in the face even if its position was biased, so they had to politely say some innocuous words, wanting to deal with the past quickly.
But obviously Wang Jie has a purpose today, seeing that the WT team is leaving, he said unhurriedly: "Fortunately, we have finally studied you thoroughly, but as the champion of the upper group, you also have the qualification to participate in the national championship, and we will be comrades at that time, and we will take care of each other." ”
Hearing this, Lan Yu felt a fire in his heart inexplicably, but when he turned around, his face was full of smiles and said, "Let's win the Flower Demon Team first." ”
Then a confident smile appeared on Wang Jie's face, as if all the tactics of the Flower Demon Team had been completely understood by him.
After leaving, Mu Huan suddenly said, "I hate this person. ”
Yuan Xiaoye next to him immediately nodded in agreement, even Chen Chuxiao and Wang Yan had the same idea, Lan Yu sighed, worried about today's flower demon team.
So he was going to talk to Tang Xiaoxie, not Chen Miting, but Tang Xiaoxie.
In the contestant preparation area, it was easy to follow the sound to find Tang Xiaoxie's traces, it seems that last night's sluggish mood has been thrown behind by the heartless him, today he looks full of vitality, it is estimated that the main reason is that he is hugging a girl with a good appearance, and the girl has given him a lot of "encouragement".
Lan Yu guessed a little obscenely, and then beckoned him to come over, Tang Xiaoxie was stunned for a moment, looked back at Chen Miting, and walked over quickly after getting approval.
"Damn, slut, are you going to show off your broken trophy again?" Tang Xiaoxie opened his mouth and scolded.
Lan Yu smiled awkwardly, and said in his heart that he had forgotten this stubble, and he knew that it would be good to use it to stimulate him again.
"No, I'm here to give you some advice, I don't know if you're interested in listening to it." Lan Yu said seriously.
"Oh? You said. Looking at Lan Yu's serious expression, Tang Xiaoxie was no longer so frivolous, but listened carefully.
"First of all, exercising too much before the tournament is not good for your body, and it's not good for your spirit." Lan Yu said, intentionally or unintentionally, he glanced at Tang Xiaoxi's sister not far away.
Seeing that Tang Xiaoxie was about to go crazy, Lan Yu hurriedly waved his hand to stop it: "Just kidding, I want to say, I still think that if you want to win the Spark team, you are the most important link." ”